It says, "If you have a Creative Cloud membership, the Adobe Application Manager will automatically update to the Creative Cloud desktop app, as long as you are running Mac OS 10.7 or later" This means that once you get a CC membership, AAM will work as a helper app and will update so that you don't have to open AAM to download or update your apps, it will work through the Creative Cloud app. It's an ambiguous statement, but that's my understanding. Especially since they state (as I posted earlier) that AAM is required on your computer for CC apps you have installed.
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